Across the uk bringing colder air all the way from iceland, a mixture of sunshine and showers, pushed in on those very brisk winds, particularly frequent showers, Northern Scotland down those north sea coasts, but some further west as well. The winds are going to be very strong and gusty, perhaps touching gale force in Northern Scotland, temperatures struggling to make double figures, 16 in the far south, but everywhere feeling colder in the strong wind. Hello, this is bbc news with ben boulos. The headlines. Labour opens its annual conference as its leader, sir keir starmer, prepares to set out the Dividing Lines between his party and the new conservative government. He tells the bbc he would reverse the governments cut to the top income tax rate. The head of the rmt union describes talks with the new Transport Secretary as a good start. The next strike is planned for the 1st of october. Voting is under way in italys general election, which polls suggest may result in the countrys mos
Siberia, where the water is already declining, and where is it still rising . Flooding of your houses is expected , and how can we help the whole world . A truly longawaited launch, a new heavy angara rocket, launch from the new russian cosmodrome, eastern flight in the future is normal. Why is the west inciting kiev to attack the Zaporozhye Nuclear power plant . Five drones flew into the territory of the Nuclear Power plant at once. If the pink wind then spreads radiation throughout europe. And what is magathe silent about again . We are pressing on all fronts. Precision missile strikes deep into ukraine on strategic objects. And how are you ready to repel attacks from the sky . Automatic release completed, minimal error. Attacks on the crimean bridge attacks on belgorod, help murder of daria dugina and vladlin tatarsky. The assassination attempt on zakhar prilepin, and now the event in crocus city. Financing of what other terrorist attacks was revealed by the Ukrainian Company with b
Audience throughout the United States, canada, and britain. This evening,on we are looking forward to his presentation with our young Friends Group over whiskey and cigars. If you are not a member of our young Friends Group, you should consider that. This morning, this is about churchills political transformation and how it shaped the kind of leader he would become. Please welcome lee pollock. [applause] laura, as one cubs fan to another, thank you for that nice introduction. Hold on just one second. I think someone picked up my notes from here. [laughter] hold on a second. [inaudible] if anyone there we go. Like Winston Churchill, i spin the best part of my life i spent the best part of my life preparing my next and previous remarks extemporaneous remarks. I am delighted to be back here at the National World war i museum. This is my fifth visit and it just gets better and better. Years from now, you will celebrate the 100th anniversary of your collection. I trust you will have a blowo
There was an outlet that would let them say it. Margaret mitchell and mary johnson who is writing and i think her books came out in 1911, 1912 will have this remarkably sick, unsentimental account of the civil war. Is very different from Margaret Mitchells narrative of the war. I would perhaps to read i was call her the poor woman. She was in poor among the partners than she had the shortly after Margaret Mitchells novel came out. She had a different kind of idea about the war and she was angry. She wrote to a friend something to the effect of the heretic or tenures to read this book, like it had taken her 12 . Her book comes out six months, eight months after Margaret Mitchells the, but other trade has been out. They were by and civil war novel after gone with a win. Some critics wondered whether women wrote this battle scenes. Is that possible . Sellable question the road to publishers. Did mary johnson really write these things . Sometimes have expressed for readers with the iowa su
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